Steve Harper, oil man, with a cement pool.
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Double Them
The F-35 costs were (more than) double what MacKay and the Conservatives told the public. The books used to track expenses for the jets were doubled. The books for Fantino’s CPC Vaughn campaign are alleged to have been doubled. Bruce Carson, Harper’s trusted PMO adviser, was a two time convict.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Big Banks’ Big Secret
The CCPA today released my report: “The Big Banks Big Secret” which provides the first public estimates of the emergency funds taken by Canadian banks. The report bases its estimates on publicly available data from CMHC, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, US Federal Reserve, the Bank of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Green Party of Sask AGM ; Hot Wind
I helped out at the Green Party of Saskatchewan’s AGM this year. It’s the first Green anything AGM I’ve been to. I’ve previously been to a Sask Liberal leadership convention as a member a decade ago, and the NDP convention last year as (a blogger) media. The results of the
Continue readinggritchik: Shake up in the BC Liberal senior ranks
But let’s be honest, this isn’t going to save them. The problem is that there’s nothing liberal about ‘em.
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Favourite Poems LVIII: And You as Well Must Die, Belovèd Dust | Edna St. Vincent Millay
You sometimes forget about authors. They sort of fall out of your head. Expect more Millay in the future. And You as Well Must Die, Belovèd Dust And you as well must die, belovèd dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives: “first government…that has actually cared about the environment”
Fall off your chair, it’d be appropriate. According to Duncan, the proposed legislation will gut environmental protection but her claim was rejected by Conservative MP Michelle Rempel, the parliamentary secretary to Environment Minister Peter Kent. “Our government is the first government in a long time that has actually cared about
Continue readingLeft Over: Let’s “Just Do It”
There has been a call from several mayors of municipalities here in British Columbia, Canada to legalize marijuana…the arguments for it are essentially that they are tired of fighting against a mega-tide of grow-ops and drug dealers who are far richer in resources and weapons to push back than the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Studying Cartoon #HarperHistory
The NDP broke up The Beatles and convinced Nickelback to get together. #HarperHistory— Joseph Uranowski (@Uranowski) April 27, 2012 There are many examples on Twitter of people mocking Stephen Harper’s bizarre claim today that the NDP didn’t support fighting Hitler. “How could they?” sane and educated people would ask incredulously,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Miscellaneous Thursday
Bizarre “Fairness Advisor” position pertaining to the politically charged Roughriders sports stadium replacement process. – Calgary’s Mayor Nenshi meanwhile has this project underway for Albertan cities. – Bev Oda, fraudster, needs a Fairness Advisor to follow her around, except that would increase the ridiculous amount of money she expenses to
Continue readingGeoff Campbell: School’s Out
Yesterday received my last grades ever from Mount Allison. Although it’s not a surprise, it’s the last confirmation that I’m done and I’ll finally be graduating. It’s a bit outdated but I have to share this: and then looking forward a bit… Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingLeft Over: The Home Ahead….
I have long been attracted to the small house movement…it seems so perfectly revisionist, as in re-envisioning the necessary and the portable..to devolve from what we are programmed to think we need. I really feel as if this is my distant or perhaps not-too distant future..finding a bit of land
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ads As News A Swindle
It’s bothered me for quite some time how the “professional” media tends to cover campaign ads (particularly attack ads) as news, and thus goads the victim of the attack into responding in turn. It’s not a coincidence that the way to respond in turn happens to send money to the
Continue readinggritchik: Yertle the Turtle: Covert political operative
In today’s WTF news, Dr. Seuss’s, Yertle the Turtle, has been deemed “too political” for students at a Prince Rupert elementary school. The offending passage: “I know up on top you are seeing great sight, but down here on the bottom, we too should have rights.” Introducing kids to broad
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: The NDP and Liberals were #RoboConned
A spokesman for the Conservative Party attacked Frank Graves, the head of Ekos, for donating to the Liberals in the past. “Frank Graves … is the same pollster who predicted an NDP government last year,” Fred Delorey said in an email to CBC News. Oh, sorry Fred. If Frank had
Continue readingBlevkog: One step forward…
… Metro Transit is cutting evening ferry service. The last boat leaving Halifax in the evenings will now depart at 10:30 p.m. instead of 11:45 p.m. This is insane. Dartmouthians who want to go out for an evening in downtown Halifax (for instance to Neptune, to a comedy club, to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: VikiLeaks30: A Little Deserved Contempt
I enjoyed all three of the videos that play in succession on this CTV page. Kady live blogging in the background is amusing. I supposed most people get funny facial expressions while they are writing, I can only imagine mine while I’m blogging. Her crack up at the revelation of
Continue readingCarbon49 - Sustainability for Canadian businesses: Send a Growable Card to Clients
I recently received a wonderful greeting card from Walmart. It is made of special seed paper that can be grown into a plant. For a company on the sustainability journey, the card itself delivers the message. I love it so much that I tracked down the card manufacturer. When I got
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Non-Conservatives Targeted, Poll Confirms
A “statistically significant” number of non-Conservative voters were targeted by illegal robocalls before and during last year’s general election. A well known polling firm, EKOS was hired to determine samples of people in both ridings known to have got robocalls, and in ridings unsuspected of targeted voter suppression. Liberals and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Aurora in Regina
Early Tuesday morning I noticed others tweeting about northern lights, so I checked 3D Sun app on my phone, and sure enough, there was a moderate solar storm underway. Kp was at 6, which is huge, since 1 or 2 is more typical in an average night where you can’t
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